Heating Pipes In Concrete Floor

Radiant heating system design or installation mistakes that must be avoided.

Heating pipes in concrete floor.

This article explains how to avoid some fatal mistakes when installing radiant heat in a concrete floor slab by describing an incompetent radiant heat floor installation along with an explanation of why things went wrong and how to avoid these errors. The workers in the photograph at page top where our concrete slab. The radiators have been located in a way that means there are minimal pipes around the house. So even if there are no existing plans for the radiant floor heating or a snow melting system installing pex tubing in it may turn out to be a good decision.

My house has concrete floors on the ground floor and the rad and central heating pipes run between the wall and plasterboard via 10mm microbore piping. Radiant heat can be an electrical heating element embedded into a very thin concrete overlay then tiled carpeted or have wood flooring installed over it. Quite simply concrete floor radiant heat is a system of pex tubes that carry hot water throughout a concrete floor or slab. Our house has concrete floors downstairs and central heating was put in before we moved in.

Basic materials for radiant floor heat installation in a slab. Remember since you will only have 1 chance to pour the concrete slab you will only have 1 chance to put the pex tubing in it. The floor is heating up now and i marked where the two pools of standing water are. I did try the ir handheld thermometer and in the basement living space i could sort of tell where it was warmer but only varying by about 1 degree so it was hard to be sure where the tubes were.